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Forgetting your Apple ID credentials might be precarious sometimes as it impounds the access to your iTunes account and many other things. If by any chance you lose your Apple ID credentials, you also lose access to the iTunes Store, iCloud library, Facetime and iMessage. Of course, you can always sign up for a new account and then you can easily retrieve the iTunes Store. You can add your credit cards all over again, you can reset the touch ID either. But what about your iCloud backup? You can’t have that back, right? So instead of creating a new account, it is always recommended to reset your existing Apple account so you never have to lose anything.

In this blog, we’ll tell you how to reset your iTunes account in some simple steps. Following is a step-by-step guide to show how you can do that.

Before doing this, you must try all the possible ID-password combinations that you think may work. But if you still can’t log in, it’s time you should reset your account as it’s the only option left. In order to do that, follow these simple steps.

Launch the iTunes app on your computer or Mac.

On the top right of the window, click on sign in.

From the drop down menu that appears, click on Account Info.

When you click on Account Info, a pop-up menu will appear where you have to fill your iTunes ID and password.

Just above the password field, you will see a ‘Forgot?’ option with an embedded link. Click on that.

When you click on Forget, it prompts the browser to launch Apple’s website and take you to the password reset page.

Enter your iTunes username or the mail id with which you are registered and click on next.

Post that, you can either choose the email verification process or you can answer the security question if your remember.

When you choose the email verification, a link will be sent to your registered mail id. Clicking on that link, you can reset your iTunes account by setting up a new password.

When You Don’t Remember The iTunes Username

Well, it doesn’t happen all the time but it’s the natural tendency of the humans to forget things. So clearly, sometimes people also don’t remember their iTunes username. It might happen in case you are managing multiple iTunes accounts. The good thing is that you can also reset the username. For doing this, Apple imposes a similar reset procedure. You can do so by following these two steps by the

While logging in to the iTunes, Click on Forgot your Apple ID? and then click on Next.

Now the remaining procedure is exactly same. You can either choose to answer the security question or you can choose the email verification whichever is more convenient to you.

That’s how you can reset your Apple ID. If you have any further query, feel free to comment.